Thursday, October 18, 2007

Amazon DRM-Free MP3's


Amazon are set to take on iTunes and wipe the floor with their new MP3 store! With MP3's now available from 100's of thousands of artists, from major to small independent labels, amazon bring you millions of tunes ready for downloading easily to your iPod, smartphone, mp3 player and your hard-drive. Now that these tunes are available without DRM (Digital Rights Management) you can transfer the tunes to any number of your portable MP3 players, or even burn the tunes to your own CD's. This will definitely give amazon MP3's an edge over music downloaded from iTunes with their restrictions on which media player you can use aand what you can do with the tunes once downloaded.

Amazon are also promoting the new release of their MP3 downloads by making available a free tune each day! Checkout amazon mp3's here. All tunes are compatible with Windows Media Player, iTunes & any music management application or hardware.

Cost
Most songs are priced from 89 cents to 99 cents, with more than 1 million of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cents. The top 100 best-selling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. The top 100 best-selling albums are $8.99 or less, unless marked otherwise.


Quality
Every song on Amazon MP3 is encoded at 256 kilobits per second, which gives customers high audio quality at a manageable file size.


Chart
Also available is an amazon download chart to see which are the most popular tunes & albums in dozens of categories!

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